Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Bionic Guffaws

I just caught a couple of episodes of the late 1970s sci-fi/action series The Bionic Woman with the lovely Lindsay Wagner in the role of Jaime Sommers. It airs in the L.A. area on COZI, an over the air station.

Yikes, but I do not remember the stories being so bad. One was a yuck fest where Jaime teamed with a retired OSI agent with a penchant for wigs and European accents to take down a former Cold War adversary of said agent. Even the music was so in your face hokey jokey, as if casting a huge spotlight on the goofy proceedings. But the other episode is the one that took the cake -- hell, it made off with the entire bakery. It involved an evil hair stylist and his mind-control hairdryer! (Read that sentence again, I dare you.) Did they just dust off old rejected Get Smart scripts for this show?

Oh, well, Lindsay Wagner was always pretty in each episode, and a much better actress than the goofy scripts allowed.